The right person is an experienced Software Development Manager with proven experience leading a fast-moving engineering team. With a strong technical background, great communication (writing/verbal) skills, and solid people management skills to manage and develop a talented and experienced engineering team, as it is essential for the success in this role. If you are seeking to invent, build and improve customers' experiences that enable millions of customers worldwide. Relish the idea of solving problems and dealing with a degree of ambiguity thats higher than most projects. Love to tackle algorithmic, Machine Learning, and large-scale engineering challenges, and have the freedom (and encouragement) to experiment and improve on behalf of our customers. Join the team! We guarantee that youll learn a lot, have fun and delight millions of customers.
As part of this role, you will:
* Own the charter and vision of your team, and work with PM, UX, and Applied Science teams to build the best shopping experience for millions of our customers.
* Hire and develop talents for your team.
* Work with stakeholders to build attractive roadmaps and deliver high quality products for customers.
* Exhibit excellent judgment on how to prioritize between focusing on existing versus new customers and between features, architectural improvements and operational excellence.
* Improving and operating mechanisms that drive higher velocity for features and key decisions.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
– Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent work experience.
– 10+ years of software development experience working in object-oriented design and coding in Java, C# or related technologies.
– Proven experience working with scalable and complex architecture.
– Minimum of 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams.
– Proven leadership skills and teamwork skills.
– Experience guiding and mentoring software development engineers.
– Strong design, architecture, and problem-solving skills.
– Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
– Successfully taken a v1 product from inception to customer delivery.
– M.S. in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
– Proven experience in leading Applied Scientists, Data Scientists, and Machine Learning Engineers.
– Expertise in NLP (Natural Language Processing), IR (Information Retrieval), Search, and Recommendation systems.
– Experience in building big-data pipelines and solving customer problems using Machine Learning and Data Science.
– Strong product management and development skills.
